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Maybe people have forgotten about this, but Neil Gaiman's Stardust was the worst adaptation I have ever seen. I watched Power Rangers (2017) and the Assassin's Creed movie each three times, but neither hurt me as bad as Stardust, and I will die on this hill.
Castlevania: Look how they butchered my boy!
Wait I loved the animated Castlevania series 🥲
Was it not faithful to the source material?
It started out fine, but writing fell off a cliff for seasons 2 and 3. They decided to go for shock factor and edginess instead of keeping true to what people have loved about Castlevania for decades: a silly adventure of a cool hero fighting classic monsters.
One moment that sticks as being particularly bad is Trevor vs Death. In the games, Death is cavalier and succint. For the animated series, they have him constantly shouting profanities.
I loved the animated series too as well as the games and lore.
pretty much all adaptations Netflix made themselves are like this, right?
most on the nose is the Witcher
foundation from apple was disgraceful to the source as well tho (exept the emperor, he rocks it)
I know Netflix adaptations are a meme at this point but they've been killing it lately. Just off the top of my head I can tell you Sandman, One Piece, The Last Airbender, Three Body Problem and Scott Pilgrim were all pretty respectful and well-made adaptations.
That's the Scott Pilgrim adaptation where Scott is only really in it at the beginning and end, the big bad is future Scott's toxic masculinity, the evil exes are mostly pretty cool about things and present and future Ramona fuse into a goddess at one point, or am I thinking of a different one? I wouldn't exactly call it an adaptation so much as an entirely different work in the same universe.
The Last Airbender was more of a quick and dirty cash grab that they sucked all the heart and soul out of with an outright disdain for the characters and message of the source material. But at least the effects were decent.
Seriously? I really enjoyed it, and I would not describe any of the main characters as lacking heart and soul.
Oh yeah it was heinous. They surgically removed every character flaw and scrap of growth from every single main character. Instead of Katara becoming a master waterbender through sheer determination and force of will convincing Pakki to train her, she just becomes a master water bender off screen with no real training. Sokka’s ego and fragile masculinity was removed so he’s just competent, respectable goofball from the outset with no growing to do whatsoever. Aang isn’t a fun loving kid struggling to grapple with the weight of becoming the avatar and dealing with the guilt of running away from his responsibilities. Instead he just gets right with the program and has zero internal conflict because in the Netflix show they made it so he didn’t run away from home, he only got caught in the storm by a stroke of bad luck while out of a leisure flight to clear his head. Suki isn’t an intelligent and skilled warrior who organically bonds with Sokka after his growth from backwater jerkoff to humble and honest man, she just sees the guy naked and goes google eyes over him because he’s hot. Zuko isn’t banished for refusing to fight his father, he’s just banished for fighting and losing.
There’s a more in depth video on this on YouTube that Drew Gooden made where he makes the excellent point that Netflix removed every internal conflict and character flaw of each character and turned them all into perfect Mary Sues with no growing to do or conflict to resolve. They’re just one dimensional stand-ins for the original characters. Theres a reason the shows creators no longer wanted to be associated with the adaptation. All Netflix wanted the IP for was the fight scenes. Which are admittedly pretty rad in the Netflix show. But they weren’t interested in the characters of the show or what the show was trying to say.
Yhea the witcher was a disaster even though they had a really good cast imo. There's basically only one company I "trust" to make a good adaptation and that's HBO.
the new dune gave me hope for the future. maybe it carries over to other films and series. maybe the success of an adaptation that tries to stay true to the vision of the source material will send a message. yes, i also dont believe myself
I kind of hate that Intellectual Property is a term that anyone other than lawyers and executives uses. Same as content and content creator.
I’d say these are web startup terms. When you’ve got a team that looks like:
Those meetings are gonna have “content creators” connected with lines to Articles to Feeds to Subscriptions and then a line to “content consumers” all in little boxes up on the whiteboard.
“Content creator” is a term for a fungible model of a person whose role in your machine is to fill the content tank so the subscriptions engine can run. How many content creators by Q2 of this year.
It's fallen into my lexicon as an convenient general term for something that spans multiple forms of media.
But I also agree that it feels a little gross to use. I'm blanking on an alternative at the moment... Franchise?
I have a conspiracy that it's part of a psy-op to make individuals feel like they somehow hold stake in the corporation, so they're more likely to support corporate decisions.
League of Legends Arcane is pretty damn good though!
I too also enjoyed it. It didn't try and stuff characters and really focused on the story.
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners gave me anxiety and made me ugly cry on multiple occasions
It was awesome
Edit: I still tear up whenever I hear the song "I Really Want To Stay At Your House"
I don't even like LoL, but Arcane is great.
Same with dota: dragon's blood
I feel like the pacing in dragons blood was pretty bad but I enjoyed it